SOMETIME IN THE mid-1970s at an Atlanta auction of abandoned furniture, a Canton man named Phillip Battles bought a pile of office furniture, desks and chairs for his Canton carpentry company. Among his haul was a locked filing cabinet.
Battles eventually decided to force the lock open and found the cabinet full of papers that, decades later, are the prize in a tug-of-war between the heir to “Gone With the Wind” author Margaret Mitchell and two book dealers who claim they purchased the cabinet’s contents from Battles’ son last year.
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